Digital Publishing with Adobe® InDesign® CS6

273 Pages·2012·10.69 MB·English

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From the Library of Debra Tomme
Digital Publishing with
Adobe InDesign CS6
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Sandee Cohen
Diane Burns

From the Library of Debra Tomme
Digital Publishing with Adobe® InDesign® CS 6
Sandee Cohen and Diane Burns
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Copyright © 2013 by Sandee Cohen and Diane Burns
Adobe Press Editor: Victor Gavenda
Editor: Becky Morgan
Development Editor: Bob Lindstrom
Production Editor: Becky Winter
Copyeditor: Scout Festa
Indexer: Valerie Haynes Perry
Cover design: Mimi Heft
Interior design: Sandee Cohen and Diane Burns
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ISBN-13: 978-0-321-82373-1
ISBN-10: 0-321-82373-7
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From the Library of Debra Tomme
Our Thanks To
Becky Morgan, our Peachpit editor; Bob Lindstrom, the development
editor; Scout Festa, our copy editor; Becky Winter, our production editor;
Liz Welch, our proofreader, Valerie Haynes Perry, our indexer; Mimi Heft,
the cover designer, and Nancy Ruenzel, the publisher of Peachpit Press.
Victor Gavenda of Adobe Press for helping guide the initial development
of the book.
Chris Kitchener, Kiyomasa Toma, Annemarie Belliard, and Colin Flem-
ing of Adobe Systems for answering our questions about the intricacies
and fast-moving developments of digital publishing from InDesign.
Gabe Harbs of In-Tools for his support in allowing us to use of the Side-
Heads plug-in. http://www.in-tools.com/
Steve Werner for his contribution to the ePub and HTML chapter.
Bob Levine for his guidance on working with ePub and HTML.
Anne-Marie Concepcion for her emergency answers to ePub questions.
Robert Shaw of Weldon Owen for use of images.
Denise Lever of TransPacific Digital for design support.
From Sandee Terry DuPrât for her support during the deadlines. Cini, my Russian
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Blue cat. And my co-author, Diane Burns, without whom I could not
have done this book.
From Diane Ditto on the co-author thing, Sandee Cohen.
Colophon
This book was created using a 13" MacBook Pro, a 15" MacBook Pro and a
27" iMac. Windows screen shots were taken on a Dell Vostro.
Pages were laid out using Adobe InDesign CS 5.5. Illustrations were cre-
ated using Adobe Photoshop CS 5 and Adobe Illustrator CS 5. Fonts used
were Chaparral Pro and Gill Sans Std.
Screen shots were taken using SnapzPro (Mac) and Snagit (Win).
The automatic positioning of anchored side heads was created using the
Side Heads plug-in from in-tools (in-tools.com).
The word cloud illustrations at the front of each chapter were created
using the Wordalizer script from indiscripts (indiscripts.com).
Weekly video conferences were held using iChat.
Files were shared using Dropbox Pro.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
Who Are We? 3
Who Are You? 4
Digital Publishing Formats 9
InDesign Workflows 10
Thinking Digitally 11
Keeping Up With It All 14
Chapter 2 Interactive Tools 17
Types of Interactive Elements 19
Defining Hyperlinks 21
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Creating Cross-References 30
Creating a Table of Contents (TOC) 33
Working with Bookmarks 39
Working with Object States 41
Audio and Video Formats 45
Working with Audio Files 46
Movies and Videos 48
Creating Buttons 51
Our Favorite Button Effects 58
Creating PDF Forms 63
Sample Buttons and Forms 68
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Chapter 3 Animations 71
Basic Animation Settings 73
Playing Animations 75
Animation Properties 77
Motion Paths 80
Timing 82
Previewing Animations 84
Chapter 4 Layout Controls 89
Setting Page Sizes 91
Working with Alternate Layouts 95
Using Liquid Layout Rules 98
Using the Content Tools 104
Linking Items 107
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Linking Styles 111
Comparing Layouts 114
Modifying Images and Text within Frames 114
Chapter 5 Tablet Applications 119
Understanding Digital Publishing Suite Apps 121
Design and Workflow Considerations 125
Setting Up Your Document 129
Interactivity and Digital Overlays 130
The Folio Builder Panel 157
Folio Producer 172
What’s Next: Publishing Your App to a Store 175
Resources 175
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Chapter 6 ePubs and HTML 177
Understanding ePub 179
Preparing Files: Creating Reading Order 183
Preparing Files: Using Styles 186
Preparing Files: Managing Graphics 190
Managing Document Pages 193
Export Options for ePub 198
Proofing and Validating ePubs 203
Going Under the Hood 204
Evolving ePubs 213
InDesign and HTML Export 213
Preparing Files for HTML Export 215
Export Options for HTML 216
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Chapter 7 Exporting PDF and SWF 221
PDF Workflow 223
PDF Export 226
Setting Accessibility Controls for PDF Files 231
Image Handling 235
Security 236
Setting the General SWF Options 239
Setting the Advanced SWF Options 242
Exporting FLA Files 246
Page Transitions 247
Exporting Animations into a PDF 250
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